User manual IMSI TURBOCAD MAC VERSION 4

[. . . ] CA 94945, USA Tel: +1-415-878-4000 Fax: +1-415-897-2544 Web Site www. imsidesign. com www. turbocad. com The material presented in this publication is copyright-protected, © 1986-2008 by IMSI and may not be reproduced in any form, by any method for any purpose without the prior written consent of IMSI. It is against the law to copy the software, except in accordance with the terms of the licensing agreement. Table of Contents Chapter 1: User Interface Files and Documents. 20 contact www. turbocad. com i TurboCAD Mac Drawing at Full Scale. 41 ii For updates and support, Table of Contents Polygon from Curves . [. . . ] If the Match Width/Height to Drawing Window Aspect box is checked, you only have to enter a value in one field. Click Save to create the file. 6. Display Last Image Command Use this command in the Render menu to display your previously rendered scene without having to render your scene again. This command is helpful if a dialog box appears or you inadvertently click your mouse and lose the rendered image. This command saves time if you've rendered your scene with one of the photorealistic commands. Note: If you rotate your geometry after rendering your scene and then use this command, the image that appears reflects your last rendering and not your current drawing orientation. Rendering and Multi-processors If your computer uses multi-processors and you are rendering an image with one of the photorealistic commands, this Designer Elements program will make use of those processors to separate the image into pieces and thus improve the rendering time. contact www. turbocad. com 283 TurboCAD Mac Photorealistic Rendering CAD Render Studio provides you with advanced rendering tools that control the definition and generation of photorealistic images. Unlike the basic shading functionality, photorealistic rendering is not used during geometry construction or editing. Photorealistic rendering is a back-end tool that interacts with the geometry already created. Photorealistic rendering is implemented using the LightWorks rendering engine. In this chapter you'll learn how to: · Import models · Add a decal to the render library · Apply decals and materials · Advanced photorealistic rendering · Output the render to a file Import Models 1. From File>Open, navigate to the folder Applicatios>TurboCAD Mac ProV4>Samples. Select the file Phone. tcp and click Open. 284 For updates and support, Chapter 11 Rendering Add a Decal to the Render Library In this exercise we will add a label for our model to the Decal Library. Browse to Go>Applications>TurboCAD Mac ProV4>Samples on your hard drive and locate the file Zeuss. jpg. Select the Zeuss. jpg and copy it from Edit>Copy or pressing Command+C. Browse to the folder Applications>TurboCAD Mac ProV4>Photo Render>Texture. Enter your password and click OK. This file is now ready for use in TurboCAD Mac ProV4. Choose the type of Render Library to Decals and change the Decal catagory to digits. contact www. turbocad. com 285 TurboCAD Mac 4. Click and drag the number 8 (say) to the phone. The Drafting Assistant will not be active for Decals until after they are placed. 5. With the pointer, click the center of the Decal and place it properly. Now that the Decal is placed it's time to replace the image with our label image and adjust its size. Choose Window>Edit Objects and open the Edit Objects dialog box, if its not already open. With the Decal selected, you can double click on it to get the Edit Objects dialog box. Choose the Geometry tab in the Edit Objects dialog box 286 For updates and support, Chapter 11 Rendering 9. Press the Apply button. The Decal is now quite larger than it was before. If you want to see what it looks like choose Photo Render>Raytrace Render (Shadows On, Antialias). [. . . ] Since the pan angle is based on the viewer's eye, the current view of the model is irrelevant. The Frames field sets the number of images generated around the sphere equator (latitude). A zero in this field means the pan will include the 0° location in the pan. contact www. turbocad. com 615 TurboCAD Mac The Max field sets the largest angle to include in the pan with 360° as the maximum. The Start angle must be a value within the range set by the Angle Min and Max fields. [. . . ]